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Past tense of unmake

irregular verb

The past tense of unmake is unmade. The past participle is also unmade.

Forms of unmake

Base form (V1)unmake /ʌnˈmeɪk/
Past tense (V2)unmade
Past participle (V3)unmade
Present participleunmaking
Third person singularunmakes

Unmade in a sentence

  • Now that he had worked himself into a snit he'd be angry if she unmade the bed and did what he wanted.2013, Florida Ann Town, On the Rim, page 84
  • His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.From the entry gig
  • The bus drove jumpily along the unmade road.From the entry jumpily
  • And it isn't unmade by unincinerating the people and undemolishing the buildings.2002 August 19, Deborah, “Re: 'Wrong and evil'”, in talk.religion.course-miracle (Usenet). From the entry undemolish
  • His tabard was 'toom' — bare or empty — and Balliol, the unmade king, became 'Toom Tabard'.1974, Ranald Nicholson, Scotland: the later Middle Ages, page 50. From the entry toom

Meaning of unmake

  1. verb To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.

Full definition of unmake

Verbs like unmake

Questions about the past tense of unmake

What is the past tense of unmake?
The past tense of unmake is unmade.
What is the past participle of unmake?
The past participle of unmake is unmade.
Is unmake a regular or irregular verb?
Unmake is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmake (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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